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The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume.

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1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happ

The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume. DAVID HUME AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Extracted from: ENQUIRIES CONCERNING THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, AND CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS, BY DAVID HUME. REPRINTED FROM THE POSTHUMOUS EDITION OF 1777, AND EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, COMPARATIVE TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND ANALYTICAL INDEX BY L.A. SELBY-BIGGE, M.A., LATE FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. SECOND EDITION, 1902 CONTENTS I. Of the Different Species of Philosophy II. Of the Origin of Ideas III. Of the Association of Ideas IV. Sce

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